"Maybe my desire to find meaning in all of this was just a remnant of my obsessive-compulsive behavior, and yet it fel…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"

"We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear."