A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink.

Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.