Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

Beatrice did something to him, reduced him to his basic animal self, but he needed to purge his out of control feelings, not amplify them.

If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.