The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

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.

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.

Always remember that your memoir is never about you. It's about your reader. At it's core, it's about that shared space where we all experience the timeless truths of what it means to be human.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm wearing heels in public for crying out loud.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.