Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

And these things
that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
they look to us, the most transient,
to be their rescue.
They want us to change them completely,
in our invisible hearts,
into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever,
finally, we may be.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.