Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn’t good for us

It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Start small and start immediately.

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not have to think about it. Well, there is that phenomenon as well.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.