Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.