Only emotion objectified endures.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Sight is where the eye hits.

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Nothing is better for being Eternal Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.