“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.”

“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.”

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”