by indignities men come to dignities

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.

Too often our visions of the futureare dull and impotentlike a hammer beating the water.

A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves…

I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you, ' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.