All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.