The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

Creators almost always go mad.

My name might be similar, but I'd never say 'Laters, baby.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.

Laugh about the past and dream about the future.

There’s no greater search than that of lost love.