What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one"s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one"s memories.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. read more

• Thought Even Most Purely Logical Realms Insight First Arrives What New

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life read more

• Thought True Secret Happiness Lies Taking Genuine Interest Details Daily Life

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed read more

• Inspirational Motivational Self-motivation Become Responsible Forever for What Tamed

Surprise comes from defying expectations. read more

• Thought Surprise Comes from Defying Expectations

Unarmed hand to hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest. read more

• Thought Unarmed Hand Fighting Does Change Ages Name Changes Rule Do First Fast Dirtiest

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. read more

• Thought Necessary Sometimes Lie Others Despicable Oneself

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. read more

• Thought Illusion Youth Happy Those Lost

Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. read more

• Thought Poker Game Fit for Grown Man Hand Against Every Yours

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected. read more

• Thought Normal What Find Rarely Ideal Picture Fabricates Average Characteristics Men Them Single Man Hardly Expected

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. read more

• Thought Life Largely Controlled by Chance Its Conduct Perpetual Improvisation