When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

And after winter folweth grene May.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. Also, no one looks for pots of gold, it just happens.