Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

... history - the lamp which illumines national character...

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction