There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

You might be a fairy tale leprechaun man but at the heart of it you're still a man who won't talk about anything.

They that make laws must not break them.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.