All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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.

Joy came always after pain.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.