The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

Happiness is the inevitable prize of repeated positive interpretations of one's experiences.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Find something that makes you happy and don't let anyone take it away from you.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.