The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

So, this is my life. And I’m the architect of my happiness and sadness.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.