The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

God never consults your past to make your future.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.