Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

You want a revolution, start murdering innocents.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.