The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The law has no power over heroes.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.

I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.