Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

Free yourself of any load which impedes you

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].