It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

Knowledge is a sage’s best friend

He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.