Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Sometimes “Good bye” is just another way of saying “I love you

Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

There is nothing you can control about love.

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.