On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

The soul fire determines the strength of the spirit.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

I think it’d be a great honor to be able to influence someone’s joy.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist."