The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Grace is the strength of greatness.

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.