Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.