Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Silence is the best response to a fool.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.