She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Her suspense was terrible.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.

If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

On the road, in my bunk, I sleep better than I do anywhere else in the world.

When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.