Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

You cannot become great by working for salary.

There is no such a thing as missing the train of your life! Life is very rich and very generous

I want in your life, Elle. All the way in.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.