... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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.

Don’t fear to be unique and reveal your own color.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

Love is the one surprise.

In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.