“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“You are the completeness of my incompleteness.”

“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits some...”

“There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.”

“Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear....”