Occupation: Author Birth: 1900 Death: 1978
Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind..
People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities..
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people..
The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple..
The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly..
People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh..
minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it..
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs you….
Night thoughts aren't to be trusted..
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic..
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin..
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance..
I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today..
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion..
You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it..
There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant..
It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man wit….
gossip is just the small change of conversation..
Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things..
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset..
What seems most likely is generally true..