Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream.

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.