“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.”

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Reflect upon your present blessings.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

The universal truth that connects all life to the source, my child, is love.

There is hope finding you and there is you finding hope.

Why must your suffering cause my peace and my peace your suffering?

From the dawn of time to the very last tick of the clock, our purpose has never depended on this world, because it always existed in eternity.

A sharp knife is more straightforward than a poisonous apple.

Discovered deeply within the depths of much suffering came forth my love of poetry.

A person is a person through other persons.