Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate.” She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Let us never be deceived into thinking that the magnitude of our sin negates His grace, for grace just abounds all the more.

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind