A dedication is a wooden leg.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man’s life.

What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

My background is in health care.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.