She burned too bright for this world.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

WORDS SHLD BE FREE. RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

It’s hard not to smile when you’re going eyeball to eyeball with a frosted chocolate cupcake.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.