There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

You have been given a gift—your life. What will you do with it?

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

The past doesn't buy you much.

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.