When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.

If wishes were horses, I'd need a very big stable.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.