To perceive is to suffer.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.