“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'”

“All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.”

“The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”