The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn