“...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

“From my window I watched the full moona moon that reminded me of Brettbecome shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour ...”

“I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of des...”

“On such a night, I thought, were ill and good,Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into oneAnd pressed against my heart.”

“One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. Theres always something just ahead.”

“I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morningraspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”