I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

We are shaped by what we're saturated in, which is why incarnation must always be paired with devotion.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.