Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.