Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I am capable of being idle.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.