Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Don't do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness ..because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete.

It takes two to bribe.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Nothing inhibits healing like shame.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Shall I call the others back in?" He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.