Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

In any relationship, frequent usage of two words is very important. They can change the course of destiny. These words are – Thank You, and Sorry.

Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North, ' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.