The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

The first principle of aid is respect.

The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.