All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.
For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, unappreciable swiftness.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
What ‘jazz’ means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term ‘jazz’ has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.