I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.