Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.