A letter is the portrait of the soul.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Don't let anything disturb your peace. Stay calm and carry on.

When mind stuck, entertain your heart.

Problems aren’t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

Alex Riley does a lot of things for me. I teach him so many things.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.