For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Damn the way he had control over me.

The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.

I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.