The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.