Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie.

To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?