To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

Power rests in tranquillity.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Each man act according to his faith.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

What I hate in movies is all those people you need. And then I realize I do better when I shoot by myself.

We are all captives of a story.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.