At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

The sum of his life was a unique melody, hauntingly beautiful and powerful.

When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.

Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.