Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.