But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

Think before you speak…… think before you don’t.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

Fashion is meant to be fun.

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.