Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

A tale never loses in the telling.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .