Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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.

Follow the feelings of your heart, you will find the love.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

Because God loves us, he tells us where we came from and who we are.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!