Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

He judged the instant and let go

You only value something if you know it’ll end.

Were born to be players, not pawns.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.