Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word ‘give’ is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.

Run the race of life at your own pace.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Old age is second childhood.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

I'm a struggling guitar player.