An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.