Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.