I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.