Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

I love people and I love to be around people.

As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.