Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive?

It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.