I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

No man can lose what he never had.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'