Most prisons have wide gates!

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

God’s grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

Good and evil exists everywhere.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.