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

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

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

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

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

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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

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

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

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

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

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.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10000 men to guard the past.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged we cannot be discouraged.

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

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core but very few feel its okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.

When it comes to clothing, I've got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That's such an old-lady colour.

Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.

One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.