And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

Consider, O Lover, my throatwhite as cigarette paper.The crushed lavender of my knuckles. My heart, a dulled needle threaded throughtoo many patterns.

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

The peak of being a fan is a hotdog and a beer and a seat at the game. There's nothing above that. Nothing above it.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.