We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

I'm not letting you -- us -- go that easily, sweetheart, so get used to having me in your life.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It’s just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it." - excerpt from: freefalling

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.