The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

We must be willing to expand the heart in order to be able to expand our thinking.

To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

The test is always how we treat the poor.