Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.