Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

Good times make the bad times better.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

I'm here today to update the American people on the incredible progress that has been made in the last four weeks since my inauguration. We have made incredible progress.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one