A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Thomas Aquinas

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

John Green

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

Karen White

Beauty is only sin deep

H. H. Munro

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Lorna Luft

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important

Dick Butkus

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

Victor Hugo