The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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.

Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.

THINK, and do not sacrifice yourself to mathematical magic.

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

I was an awkward kid.