The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Truth is established by reason and scripture, not by force.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

No feeling is final.