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

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

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.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother.

Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility.

The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

Sleep? What's that? A new type of casserole?

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.