Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Gabi to Marcus "I can't believe out of one hundred thousand sperm, you were the fastest!

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

May your wants be few and your pleasures many.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.