He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

Certainty ends inquiry.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.