Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Fight for the things that matter to you. Inspire yourself. Believe in the power of positive thinking.

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

Didn’t your mother ever tell you the only way to kill us is to cut us into pieces? You should have brought a wood chipper instead of a gun. (Wulf)

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.