A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.