Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.

God’s Word is absolutely true

Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life’s absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.

I'm putting on a suit and tie when I go see The Great Gatsby.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed.