Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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.

There is mighty force, energy, ability inside of us that has not yet been noticed by the world

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.