If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.

I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games with you. Here I am. This is who I am. Take it or leave it.'

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.