How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

One heart cannot serve two masters.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing, " said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!