Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

When God breathed life into us, He put His will in us

How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

Why not give the ladder of success an honest brave long try?

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.