People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Because you´re not a one night girl Irish.' Leaning in to place a kiss on my jawline he whispers, 'You're my forever girl.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.