Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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 am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

You cannot see me from where I look at myself

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.