The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

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.

There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.

Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

Perception is the reality in the absence of fact.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

[In 2011] What Steve Jobs did was simply make everything and everyone better.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.