I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.