Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.