But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

Love will always be the most powerful force.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.

He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.

A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary, and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.