Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.