I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

stars are the scars of the universe

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.