Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers. I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials. Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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