There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

If you want to change the world, first change yourself, then tell others how you did it. Never demand that people change. Inspire them to change using your own change as an example instead.

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.

This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.