"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." — Hafez, Iranian poet, born 1325
"How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being, otherwise, we will remain too frightened." — Hafez, Iranian poet, born 1325
"For I have learned that every heart will get what it prays for most." — Hafez, Iranian poet, born 1325
"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions." — Hafez, Iranian poet, born 1325
"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you." — Hafez, Iranian poet, born 1325
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare." — Uta Hagen, German-American actress, born June 12, 1919
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." — Nathan Hale, American soldier, born 1755
"My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard." — Yehuda Halevi, Spanish Jewish physician, born 1075
"Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear." — Joan Halifax, American Zen Buddhist teacher, born 1942
"If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?" — Joan Halifax, American Zen Buddhist teacher, born 1942
"I do everything to words. I’d be happy to send them to Florida or buy them hot dogs, anything, if they’ll just come through." — Donald Hall, American poet, born 1928