We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.

Common sense is not too common.