What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.