Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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.

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.