On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

You are part of nature, and its pulse beats in your veins.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.