When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

If you want to conquer fear then you have to put fear on your fears.

The grace of fulfilled dream is phenomenal.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.