The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

To Dream The Impossible Dream, Is Something Great We All Should Do

Dedicated selfless people shape the future

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.