If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.
I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.
Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.
What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.