False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.