The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.