Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

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.

I cannot see you anymore. Your ego spans higher than the Himalayas.” Sutara

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.