Which Quotes

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Be that self which one truly is.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.