Nought may endure but Mutability.

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.

The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.