Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

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.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.