The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

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.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Tell me again, exactly what Dr. Thorn said.""Um, I hate middle school dances.""No, no. After that.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.