It loves more readily than it hates.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.