All love is sweet, given or received.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Build up your faith while starving the fears.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.