The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.