Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.