Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

Be a model for the world, never a critic.

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

There is no fifth destination.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.