Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.