True worth is being not seeming

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Love does not judge.

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

My life is a dream come true of a dream I never knew I even had

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.