The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...

I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

I've always believed in survival.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.