Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Conceive, believe and achieve.

Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Forward, men, and mix with them.

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.