I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Can I ask you something?" He placed the chain around her neck. She nodded. "Have you ever wanted something really badly that you know you shouldn't have, yet you can't stop yourself from wanting it?

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.