At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.