I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.