Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

Through meditation, difficult thoughts and emotions may well rise up. And through practice, you can meet such emotions with kindness, listen to them, explore them and then really let them go.

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

The real problem is not the down time that you experience: it is what you do with it.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.