Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.

You are my light in the darkness.

High hopes were once formed of democracy

If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?

When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.