I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."

"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."