The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life to unfold its wings.

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

I want to model generosity and touch poverty.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.