Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?