Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I'm very comfortable in the U. S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U. S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
All those big words produce disgust today.
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.