I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

The key to success is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing.

Those who fear men like laws.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.