“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.

What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Shut your eyes and see.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

I think the world is becoming a place where younger and younger people can do great things, and I just hope I can inspire other young people to do the same.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.