marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

I'd never hurt another person.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn’t of the earth - this is of the everything.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.