It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Everyone has the potential to live a life of purpose.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.