Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday

Self-preservation is an enemy of love.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.