We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.