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

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.

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.

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

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.

Make it stop, " Vincent murmured, coming out of sleep and pulling the blanket over his head. "I think your mutt is howling for you.

It’s not my fault that these are the problems I’ve been put on this earth to deal with, right? They’re petty, they piss me off, and they’re all mine

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.