There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Washington's a dangerous place.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.