Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.