Calumnies are answered best with silence.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

I don't know nothing about nothing.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.