I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)