The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

Problems are inevitable. Happiness is optional.

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.

I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."