Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

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.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

Love God, then do what you will.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.