“Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”

“What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?”

“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.”

“Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.”

“No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.”

“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Go outside. Dont tell anyone and dont bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day ou...”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”