Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

As long as hope is alive happiness will be there.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player