Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

Nobody’s life is perfect.Rather than wishingfor things you don’t have, make the most of thethings you do have.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."