Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.