Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

All in all is all we are.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.