there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

Jump in the ocean of loveto die and to save at the same time.

Your mind can make the darkest day bright and the brightest day dark.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.