A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

A politician is a man in his natural state

People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Comedy is what keeps us alive.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.