As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

Anyone can stay up late, but only the disciplined can get up early.

Fond as we are of our loved ones there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?