Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Whatever comes to your consciousness is what you act out.

In the end… he would choose Campisi.In the end… she would choose Abandonato.In the end… there would be bloodshed.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I have a terrific headache.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

"I'll be your family now," he says.