Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.

What many don't know is that Arizona has a something called the State Land Trust - a fund with assets that have been set aside and invested for decades specifically to benefit education.

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Never interrupt when you're winning.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.