The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

Sometimes not looking for something is the best way to look for it

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.