The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

I miss being able to call people back instead of having to text them that I can't talk right now.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

How deeply did you learn to let go?

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.