There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

What are we without belief, without purpose?

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited