Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.