Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
History has been the history of warfare.
Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh. ' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you. ' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.
No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.