It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.

Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.