Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

We cannot study everything at the same time.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.