Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion.

That's kind of creepy.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.

While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.