If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.

Do what makes you happy. Life is too short to live on other people's expectations

You hold substance in my psyche

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.