To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part.

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Make it smart. Make it beautiful. Have fun.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.