Is not absence death to those who love?

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.