The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.