Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Take love when love is given.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier, she seems to fade beside my mother.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.