I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

Rumors travel faster then the speed of light

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.