Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.