We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

L'essere notata non mi va a genio, questo mi pare chiaro.

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.