... I love him... not because he's handsome... but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing.

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

Done is the engine of more.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.