With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Give your life purpose and focus. Position yourself to succeed

I have been where you are now. I have felt the fears and resolved them. I have had the doubts and concerns and found the way forward.Lift up your head, and step ahead...

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

No more like together than is chalke to coles.