Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

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.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

Make it happen today!

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows

Fear is a healthy part of success.

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?