Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.