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

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

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.

I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Rilke.