O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Denying racism is the new racism.

Who takes care of their people better? FEMA or Hezbollah?

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

When people know what you want, they will give it to you.

I just want to keep people entertained.

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.