Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.