Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force.

And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything".

There are a broad range of issues that need to be dealt with. We've got the president's name up on buildings in places where they could be a terrorist attack. This is a very precarious situation.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.