Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

My father had bought him a shirtthat said “Sure you can date my daughter.  In a completely unrelated topic, have you seen my shotgun?

As ye would that men should do to you do ye also to them likewise.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

The artificial is always innocent.

I can't die. It would ruin my image.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.