One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other's half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.

My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Obama will learn from his mistakes.