artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.