The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever.

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

Trust in Jesus, wholeheartedly. Don't try to figure things out yourself. Just be intimate with Him!

But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

What I know bores me.

Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.