Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Pinkville was called Pinkville because in the military maps, it was shaded a bright kind of shimmering pink, which signified what was called on the maps a 'built up' area, which was extremely misleading - 'built up' only meant there were little villages and it wasn't just desolate paddy land or unpopulated.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.
People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
