Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Never ask me to reach for the moon when all I want is to hold your hand." -- Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.