No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I am always crazy for hot women. I am like a rabbit. I could do it anytime, anywhere.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.