Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

Yoga makes me feel really sexy.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy