And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

When personal growth is missing, there is no peace.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.