But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Nothing restricts your peace and happiness more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.