Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.

But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don’t imagine I shall have more luck than they.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.