The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Take love when love is given.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

If you dance daily, you will find strength within thy soul.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.