In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

There is no reward for wishes.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"No, " Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.