Progress is a comfortable disease.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.

To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!

The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.