If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater