The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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 difference between success and failure is persistence.

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

We have the best military in the world.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.