Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

They've said your name sounds like an astronaut, but you don't go ascend above the sky.Don't you know you are a fall from the shooting star?

Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.