Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I believe that women will lead the democracy movement.

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch