Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
-Proverbs
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
Develop a mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect poise of mind: follow calmness, the absence of pride.
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.
-Criss Jami