The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals. And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig, is a bear...is a boy.

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.