“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”

“A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".”

“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?”

“It's all rather political, mourning is.”

“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didnt have a chance to grow.”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie ten Boom”

“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.”

“Past tears are present strength.”