What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

The joy of life is in new creations, new adventures, and new feelings.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

The more positive you think the earlier you will discover opportunities and the easier you will overcome obstacles.

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.