One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.

If you know the secret of life, you will never think negatively.

I know nothing, so I study.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - I slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.