Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

Nature responds to your respect and gratitude by creating a magical energy of blessings in return.

Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.