Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.

There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Sneakers are not my thing.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it