Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?