It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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.

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".