...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

And empty words are evil.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

Children see beauty in everything.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.