Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

We have not found any smoking guns.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

We need to get inside. I think my hair gel’s frozen.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.