Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

... love is healing, even rootless love.

You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.