I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Denis Waitley

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know

Robert Hunter

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagavad Gita

And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5

Bible

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

Shirley MacLaine

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Frederick William Robertson

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Ibn Gabirol