When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

You should never live according to what you lack.

Ronan did not smoke

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

If you give up, it's over. But if you don't give up, the day will come when you'll be glad you didn't give up.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance