“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.”

“We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.”

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.”

“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.”

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”