Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

To follow the path look to the master follow the master walk with the master see through the master become the master.

I think it would be cute to marry your high school sweetheart, but I think it would also be nice to be sitting on a plane with somebody who lives across the world from you.