What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wenell Holmes

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may affirm that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found in it the key to your own heart....
Woodrow Wilson

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
Blaise Pascal

All finite things reveal infinitude.
Theodore Roethke

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.
Epictetus