Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life.

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Half the game is 90% mental.