God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.