In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.

Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.