I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.

O God, Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

I would have borne it as I would bear death if fate was in that humour: but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you.

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

La vita è un'avventura da vivere, non un problema da risolvere.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.