There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

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.

That hug was my little peace of heaven.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.