The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed

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.

The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.