Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
De omnibus dubitandum
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.