For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

It’s amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.