I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

Either you will be under the blood or you will place the blood under you.

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

The flaw is the thing we love.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.