Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

We are closest to people when we help them grow.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.