Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself

Just breathe, " my mom would say, "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.