Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Make your flaw your strength.

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Inwardly, I gouged my eyes out.

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.