Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?