Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.