Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and betterand bolder, but first, I'm going to do somethingsmaller and worse.

An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

Deep down, I lay dormant inside her head, Deep down, I lay the rules inside her head, Deep down, I lay inside inside her heart, Deep down, I know she will never move onBecause deep down, I am always there

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?