Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'Is he?'All boys are.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.

The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.