It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't, " said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I’m scared as hell to fall for you… But I’m more terrified to let you go.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do... I can do.

Some people are jewels in the wrong setting.