It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.