Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Pretending is the fastest way to believing, and believing is the fastest way to receiving.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Expectations determine outcome, always!

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.