She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone. |

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. |

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. |

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. |

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on. |

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
And if they don't, they never were. |

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep. |

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. |

Wherever there will be nothing, read that I love you. |

The Fox knows many things – the hedgehog one big one. |

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. |

Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. |

If you do it right, it will last forever. |

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. |

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. |

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. |

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? |

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. |

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die. |

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? |

We are not defending nature - we are nature defending itself. |

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. |

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |