Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

Don't judge people by their physical appearances if you truly want to get to know them. Just watch their frequent footsteps and you would surely know their true personalities.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.