• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
  • "And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
  • "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
  • "I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."
  • "A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
  • "Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
  • "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
  • "We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
  • "Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
  • "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
  • "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
  • "Freedom lies in being bold."
  • "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
  • "I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
  • "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  • "The best way out is always through."
  • "What we live by we die by."
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