“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

“No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.”

“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”

“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't ge...”

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”