Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.