A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.