You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.