This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

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 problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.