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.

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.

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.

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?

Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship?” “Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag.

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap, " declared Listen."You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met.""Both of you be quiet,

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.