Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like.

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.