My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

No matter what responses you get from your work, you have to be determined not to give up on your dreams!

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

I can shoot a basket pretty well.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

As long as NATO changes when the world is changing, we will be very important for the security of all our allies, including the United States.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.