When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.