Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

I covet truth

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.