If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his own, familiar pillow.

The more we justify our beliefs the more narrow minded we become.

By association with natures enormities a mans heart may truly grow big also.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of mans degeneration and it is dangerous to judge a mans physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

Of all the rights of women the greatest is to be a mother.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner the modern man seems to judge a mans moral standards by his cleanliness and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had.

Missing someone is your heart's way of reminding you, that you love them.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page it is an embodiment of our values.

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.