There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted.

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

The best way to find the opportunity in the future is to prepare yourself for it today.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.