“Power said to the world, you are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.”

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

We live in the world when we love it.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction–to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

If you don’t set your spirit free now then when will you find your wild.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’