We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 1 Peter 4:1

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

If someone sprays windex in your food it can give you diarrhea. But once you wipe it off your windows, you're fine.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.