Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I can choose to be unstable.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

I don't have all the answers.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.