States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

... at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.