A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.