The music paled like a candle and went out.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

All the world's a stage.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

Your mother is going to be fine, " the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

I love the modern technology now.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

We still seek no wider war.

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.