“Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

It is said of great Empires, That the best way to preserve them from decay, is to bring them back to the first Principles, and Arts, on which they did begin.”

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

Brokenness is a beginning.

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.