An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

Larry David makes me laugh.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.