There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

This is my war, and I don't know what side I'm on.

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.