The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

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.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.