A land of levity is a land of guilt.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

It is never too late in life to practice yoga

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.