The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Being political doesn’t only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election

He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

every lord was a servant and every servant will be a lord.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.