Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.