Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

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.

How you define an event produces emotionand determines how you feel going forward

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.

You will never know how it feels unless you were the one facing the situation.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.