If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response

The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.