“What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.”

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

The artist in me cries out for design.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

I guess we all understand the love language fine; but maybe truth is we’re just too fluent in goodbyes.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.