Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Struggle all you like, you're not going anywhere.

Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them