Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.