Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

If life was fair Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."