“Character is a wish for a perfect education.”

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

To philosophize means to make vivid.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

Humanity is a comic role.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

I’m often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don’t think I’ve actually cried watching myself.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

How do you project a character if you don’t have a sense of where she is from? I’ve always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.