A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

People who are stuck in the past, miss out on the beauty of the Present and the possibility of the future!!!

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.