I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.
Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge
When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.