The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

If he aint tellin his boys about you, you aint the one.

Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.