"For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death."

"A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life."

"The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun."

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

"Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain."

"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

"Lawers, I suppose, were children once."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

"I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them."

"When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee."

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."