You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.

I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.