In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.  But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.  ~Paul Dirac

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.  ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.  ~Martin Fraquhar Tupper

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.  ~Cato the Elder

You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without.

Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.  ~St. Augustine

Relationships --of all kinds-- are like sand held in your hand.  Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is.  The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers.  You may hold on to some of it, but most of it will be spilled.  A relationship is like that.  Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact.  But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.  ~Kaleel Jamison

If you can...just for a moment remember in your life when the glow of joy was so bright that it seemed as if time stood still...then that joy will blind you forever.

I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadow
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I did as I believe.  ~Whitney Houston

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.  ~Josiah G. Holland

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.  Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.  ~Ludwig van Beethoven

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness.  That is a friend who cares.  ~Henri Nouwen

Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.  ~John Berrymore

The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.  ~Istvan

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell

When I saw you, I was afraid to talk to you.  When I talked to you, I was afraid to hold you.  When I held you, I was afraid to love you.  Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.