“It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quit...”

“There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscienceThese testimonies of a good conscie...”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each ...”

“She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.”

“Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”