Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

Peace of being makes the soul prosper.

One would say You had not left me for a single instant. "Did you doubt it?

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.