In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.