To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

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.

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous, ' on the other.

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani]

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

At some point in my life I would like to win a Grammy. I think that would be a good thing to do.