The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

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.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.