I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite

Enjoy the moment while waiting.

I'm not really angry at you.I'm just angry at myself for not doing anything.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.