With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Use your passion to create a job.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

Pray as you can, not as you can't.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.