Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

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.

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.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.

Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Don't let the world . . . Cheer you up.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.