"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."

"Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done."

"The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie."

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning."

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee."

"I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome."

"What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say."

"I must say, to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable."

"It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand."