When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

Development develops inequality.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”