You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.
Governments have a favorite phrase: lean and mean. But theyve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.