Business is the salt of life.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Life too near paralyses art.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
There are those that are void of all mercy, but when it comes the time that they are on their knees, they plead for it. Those that were born with the art of deception, never sincere with their words or actions. But mercy is not theirs to take, only for you to give. Never compromise your standards, your beliefs and become like the ones who you are fighting against, but stay resolute to who you are.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
