Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.