People who think love can happen twice, actually never fell in it the first time.

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

My heart always knew, you're the dew, my dry soul would never adieu.. but I still don't know why I let you go and waited all my life just for you.

If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

Don't seek the devil in the place which he calls his home

Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.

Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.