Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

I don't paint what people expect, I paint what my heart yearns to express.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

The secret in any situation is the strength of spirit.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.