Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

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.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

A garden always has a point.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.