Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.

I'm shocked at how much I'm into Christmas pillows. There's cheesiness, obviously, but then there's really cute ones that are metallic that say "Ho Ho Ho" or "Merry" or cute vintage needlepoint ones.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

If you have health, you have everything.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.