There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

Er-my-nee," Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.