Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.