You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

Live in absolute bliss. One moment of deep appreciation of beauty that surrounds you can change your perception of life.

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity