God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.

But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for

She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

She could think of no other reason for this boy to continue to visit her if not to use her in some way.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.