My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

J.K. Rowling

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Ruth Rendell

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Oscar Wilde

The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.

Kate Chopin

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Bible

Memories do one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present.

Cassandra Clare

Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human...Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead.

J.X. Burros

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Dick Gregory

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Lisa Unger