T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Don't turn blue all over now.

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.