Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

We do not kill good people, for the world is better with them in it.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

If you've got a dream, there is no one out there to stop you, from achieving it.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.