Grass grows at last above all graves.

O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!

Stars will blossom in the darkness Violets bloom beneath the snow.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).