Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

The Best Is Always Yet To Come

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface