To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.