To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.

Got a problem? Good that you know you have one. Otherwise people either don’t know that they have or they don’t accept the fact that they have any.

If you have to die like a worm, die that way, complaining will not fetch you anything extra.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.