In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.