The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

How can I use what most excites me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

we need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose

I have been on a diet since 1962.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.