Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.