Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain, That stymied me from living again.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.

Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.