For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

O Lord that bear rule, even we all are full of impiety. And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.

When we allow ourselves to experience unconditional love in our lives, what we are able to know, see, feel, hear, and access is actually unlimited, unbounded by time.

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.