Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.