In a major matter no details are small.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?