Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.