in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I think God gives us all that in his Word because he's a loving Father.

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.