Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy....beside me.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.