Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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 more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I'm marrying my Dreams.Soon I will be holding hands with Destiny!

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.