Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

A jug fills drop by drop.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.