You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

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.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Life is a mind game of creation.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

Halfway measures are not enough.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.