Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Words of love, are works of love.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

A gray eye is a sly eye And roguish is a brown one Turn full upon me thy eye Ah how its wavelets drown one A blue eye is a true eye Mysterious is a dark one Which flashes like a spark sun A black eye is the best one.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Pearls mean tears.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

I am not gay, I just like pearls.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

Ninjas are so cool!

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else