No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

You can’t change your past, but you can begin your journey by understanding it.

What you want let it go., if it is truly yours, it will come back to you.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.