At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

I was always crazy even before the drugs.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.