The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.