We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Don't come to God because you have a problem

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'