“We live in our desires rather than in our achievements”

“Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!”

“The difficulty of life is in the choice.”

“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”

“Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”