I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

Giada De Laurentiis

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Yukio Mishima

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Jean Rostand

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Steven Wright

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J.K. Rowling

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

John Ruskin