Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

I rise from the moist crevice of thought, I beat on the shores of her holy body, I fall from the sky in silver sheets of sadness. Rise onto me my precious sun.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are.

I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

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