Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree.

Keep your friends close, your enemies close and your family damn close because one of them is a backstabber

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

I'm four months along, but I feel like I'm carrying the baby in my a--, it's so big.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.