Surely the stars are images of love.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body...

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros) Oh, let’s see…how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian)

The end of government is the happiness of the people.