Don't just count your years, make your years count.

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.

His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.

If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.