To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. -William Blake

Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté. -Margaret Atwood

Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. -Alanis Obomsawin

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. -Arthur Miller

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. -Ernest Hemingway

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. -T.S. Eliot