Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

Heaven's great artillery.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.

Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason