Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

Example is leadership.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.