Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

You are no better than you should be.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

But in action, one defies one's character.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

I like guts in my leaders.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.