I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Only the strong soul can accept the truth.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.