Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Our time is the life we have at the moment

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Be yourself, but always your better self.

If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.