“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.”

“I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

“Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.”

“If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.”