There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

We must look deep into our soul daily.

For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. "Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not the god you want him to be.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'