The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link.

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.