History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
Men don't have the benefits of equality either.
The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.