The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more

My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan

Most animals are like people-and like good people

The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your

I like the sound of rain more than my

Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to

I can't promise to becalm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and

The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

I would immediately start working on the military [as a President] . We have to build up our depleted military. And I would start working on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Everything is something, but something is nothing.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.