You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.

Courage has no age.

It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.

Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

Paris shook his head."Do you think I would teach just anyone to fight me to the death? I want you to be my wife. My one and only wife.

But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.

Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.

Yes you may come." Paris held up a hand to delay Myrina's raptures. "But this time you will not be wearing my crown. You will be my slave, and believe me I shall enjoy ordering you around.

Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.