I see but one rule: to be clear.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.