Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

And Chris Benoit, as magnificent as he looks, is not medically cleared yet.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.