I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.