He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."