If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Take love when love is given.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

I want balance in my life.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.