storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Becoming is better than being

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed