Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.