"Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize."

“Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?”

Source : "8 Times We Fell In Love With Malala Yousafzai" by Katie O'Malley, www.elle.com. December 7, 2016.

“Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.”

“Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.”

“A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.”

“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.”

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work ... and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.”

Source : "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

“That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.”

“The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.”