The public must and will be served.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

I love my children unconditionally.

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.