"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was be…"

"Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist"

"Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully …"

"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…"