[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

Only in the present do things happen.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

The world is not outside you.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.