In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Common sense is not so common.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.