Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
One can remain alive. . . if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.
Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.