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.

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.

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

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.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

We need a hit, so here I go.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.