“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.”

“With renunciation life begins.”

“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.”

“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”

“It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”

“Old age is the verdict of life.”

“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.”

“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. ”

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

“Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.”