The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.