Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
