The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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 are no such things as curses

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.