Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

The search is more important than the destination

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor