Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

No man can ever admire a woman the way she admires herself.

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.