Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.