There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God.

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.

I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White

Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning!

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.