Yet who shall shut out Fate?

There is no caste in blood.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.