We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

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.

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

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.

If you don't have love, you don't have much at all.

Create the best of yourself, become your best self.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

What you see is more important than what you know.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.