Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

When you discover your gift and develop it, the world will start looking for you

By loving you, I learn everything because your soul contains the entire universe.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.