Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again, " I say the way I've said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, "go on and add a little bit more to that.

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

Conformity is an imitation of grace.