"However mean your life is, meet it..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.”

“...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."”

“Love that endures, from life that disappears!”

“Some things were beyond understanding.”

“Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.”

“You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.”

“In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.”