It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

You know those guys who say 'danger is my middle name'? I bet if you looked on their driver's licence it would probably say 'Melvin' or something.

I'm a hopeless romantic.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.