The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.

I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I’m pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.