All art is an imitation of nature.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.