It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.

Playing for my country remains close to my heart and I have made myself available to play if chosen.

My brother died at age 42 of a heart problem. My mother had had a stroke. I took a look at what was going on, and I didn't want to end up like that -- or have my kids end up like that.