Seeking is not always the way to find.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Do not allow the vision to die in your heart

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

The cinema is an invention without any future.

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are