A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?