No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.

Wait, ” Quinn said. “There’s one more thing.” I turned around and raised an eyebrow. His eyes were wary and he lacked his usual confidence.“Go to the Winter Dance with me.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.

I'm voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

A short absence is the safest.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything