There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Never look in the mirror when your stressed it’s contagious

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do