Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.