"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

“Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.”

“The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.”

“Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.”

“I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.”

“I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

“I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.”

“Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.”

Source : Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press

“I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.”