Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.