Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

Genius is clairvoyant.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Genius can never despise labour.

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

Labor is the law of happiness.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.