That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Art is a culmination of all that one stands for

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We're really lucky

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.