War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow