Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

There shouldn't ever be a gas shortage in our world...when so many people are full of it!

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.