The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.

I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful.