In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
How wise must one be to be always kind.
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Genius points the way, talent takes it.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.