Never despise what you don't understand.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.