Peace doesn't mean you won't have problems. It's means problems won't have you.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.