The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

Art rides in on pleasure.