He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

You can't expect anything to be handed to you. And I learned that.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.

Ive done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.