Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Thought is the measure of life.

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.