Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I am not a fan of books.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.