leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice?

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

when a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.