Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

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.

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?

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.