Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.