The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Everything good needs replacing

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

My love though silly is more brave.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'