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

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.

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

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

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.

Thoughts are wakeful dreams without the pictures.

He felt Anna's hand slip into his and he grasped it hard. It was reassuring, soft, comforting. Everything he needed in that moment.

If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.