Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.