I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible. ' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful. "
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.