If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

She was afraid of heightsbut she was much more afraid of never flying.

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

Live and let live. I want to be happy and be loved...that's all.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.