A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

Nothing cannot exist forever.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.