Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

There was a girl I loved in high school - but never spoke to. Cut to my five-year reunion: I'm an entirely different person.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.