The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.