But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.