Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

You have to push through every difficulty to achieve the goal.

I'll say that you were so beautiful, you made me do ridiculous, reckless things.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.