Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life.

Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood. Thou art no father nor friend of mine.

Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Quid novi? What's new?

What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound . The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.

And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.

No matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

Life is so unlike theory.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.

No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.