In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.