...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and it would never lessen the hunger I had for that woman.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.