Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The dead should not rule the living.

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.