Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.