All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.