The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

One finds great comfort in good dinners

“Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?”

“exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

“Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.”

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

"Everything is nothing, with a twist."