“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.”

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”

“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.”

“We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful thi...”

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. Youve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”

“Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!”

“If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.”

“Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayeranything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed”

“A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!”

“One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!”