Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.