I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.

No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.