Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die.
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.
Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.
Everybody lives for something better to come.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.