What is fear but courage's shadow?

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.