Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.