A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.