I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments.

If you are “playing” too much or “working” too much, you will have a reaction on the other side, which indicates your pace is off, too slow or too fast.

You smell wonderful, ” he told her. “So aroused.” “That's the bug spray, ” she said.

And with technology, as we know, it can go very, very rapidly.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.

No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.

Potential is the one power you always have.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.