The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

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 Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.