Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

The next thing you do is allocate resources.

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate