The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Harry Connick, Jr.

A rotten case abides no handling

William Shakespeare

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

J. Martin Kohe

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

Monica Lewinsky

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Stanislaw Lec

A lion is much more dreadful to him that never saw him, than he is to his keeper who feedeth him every day. A pitched battle is more frightful and scaring to a new-listed soldier, that never took his place in the field before, nor saw the dreadful countenance of an army ready to engage, nor heard the thundering noise of cannon, and volleys of shot, the shouts of armies, and groans of dying men on every side, than it is to an old soldier who has been used to such things. The like we may observe in seamen, who it may be trembled at first, and now can sing in a storm.Scarce any thing is more necessary for weak and timorous believers to meditate on, than the time of their separation. Our hearts will be apt to start and boggle at the first view of death; but it is good to do by them as men use to do by young colts; ride them up to that which they fright at, and make them smell to it, which is the way to cure them. Look, as bread, says one, is more necessary than other food, so the meditation of death is more necessary than many other meditations. Every time we change our habitations, we should realise therein our great change: our souls must shortly leave this, and be lodged for a longer season in another mansion. When we put off our clothes at night, we have a fit occasion to consider, that we must strip nearer one of these days, and put off, not our clothes only, but the body that wears them too.http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/ipb-e/epl-10/web/flavel-pneumatologia07.html

John Flavel, A Treatise of the S

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

Mira Nair

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

John Green