In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

I’m going to kill you, you know.

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.