I want to do everything in the world with you.

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.