They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.