I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask.I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

Every day above earth is a good day.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.