There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

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.

Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

I write about families. That is who we are.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.