Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

You'll never find me in a gym.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.