In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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.

Love is almost never simple.

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

The future ain't what it used to be.

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.