When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Rumi

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard Baruch

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Francis H. Bradley

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Christopher Hitchens

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

James Baldwin

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

Tommy Lee Jones

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

E. W. Howe

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of