A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

There is certainly a red for everyone.

Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you’ve realized, you love, and you are reached.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.