To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

I'd rather be an unhappy principled man than a happy person with a lax conscience.

I may not know much but I can count.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.