“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Every professional was once an amateur.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

How can he be perfect? Everything he ever makes, dies.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.