“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.”

If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Does caring make us weak? I think it makes us stronger, For it’s quite difficult To be selfless, But rather easy to be selfish.

As a woman, it’s challenging to carve out moments for self-care, and even more so over the past year.

I’ve been reminding myself to love where I’m at and take care of the thoughts in my head.

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

Love is like a wild rose; the thorns will only make your heart bleed if you touch it without care.