“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.”

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Freedom is participation in power.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Books: our unfailing companions.

To be rather than to seem.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

A girl with a twinkle in her eye.