Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.