Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Justice has long arm.

I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing.