What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation.

When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.

It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.