It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.