O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

A gynecologist is the dentist for the downstairs mouth.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.