“Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.”

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

The worst time is always the present.

We are never content with our lot.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

Stop crying, keep hustling.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

In my entire career, I’ve never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

I hear the rain fall and suddenly I don’t feel so alone because the sky is crying too.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

For years I could not cry. And I thought there was something wrong with me. Turns out I was crying after all – just not in tears.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.