A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

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 don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

Skill is less important than awareness.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

I COULDN'T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.