Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

I saw my first angel.And it was you.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Use all of your senses.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.