I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

When the moon comes up, I go down For the first time There's a garden deep, deep in my heart But it's blossomed for the last time

Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life.

If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises

I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.