Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Life is your biggest Treasure. Enjoy it. If you forget to, it will soon be gone, never to return.

It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.