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.

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.

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.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

The facts are near to deception!

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.