It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I live in a developing country.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables