And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Libraries are our friends.
To Love is to reach God.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
As a man is, so he sees.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.