It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

As important as it is to possess the willpower to become successful, it's even more important to have the drive to maintain it after you achieve it.

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.