Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

Your word is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise.

Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

I may be an optimist.

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.