Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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.

You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

I wonder what my speech would be.

After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.