No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

You can go as far as you think, imagine and dream. Anything is possible.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.