When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

...you do yourself no favour if you let your sense of doubt-mistrust-scepticism to rise up within you to the point where you must look every gift horse in the mouth...

Anything can happen in love, war and South Inidan movies.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome

At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.