It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.