The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.