I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

and I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.

Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.

I found my own way of doing things.