Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him. . . Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.
All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.
In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long.
Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. ". . No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.