To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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.

May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

A moment of kindness can bring infinite beauty in life.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Don't tell your problems to people because no one cares anyway, but in fact they pretend !

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.