i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.

...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.