Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody else’s.
Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Life is all about allowing people choices to be who they want. But the majority of people choose to be worthless.
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.
It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It’s not a question of pessimism or optimism. It’s just that ninety-nine out of a hundred people don’t have any brains.[Дело не в пессимизме и не в оптимизме, а в том, что у девяноста девяти из ста нет ума.]
It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
It’s important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else – to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.
It’s always the most ridiculous people who are the first to slander others.[Ceux de qui la conduite offre le plus à rire Sont toujours sur autrui les premiers à médire.]
It was wise to beware of people who were not telling the truth.