He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.