Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

No coward soul is mine.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.