I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

Two percent of the people think

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way!

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.