How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Lot

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.