Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

No matter your circumstance, there is hope, strength, and courage to be found.

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

We convince by our presence.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.