Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.