Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

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.

God didn't bring you into this life for you to wait around for good things to happen to you. It is time to introduce your life to so many possibilities and opportunities out there. Victory is yours.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.