How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

It hurts because it mattered.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.