Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.

I go where the lizards tell me.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.