It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.