Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.