Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Let the sounds of nature amplify your vibrations of peace.

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.