"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me." — Peace Pilgrim, American activist, born 1908
"Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God." — Peace Pilgrim, American activist, born 1908
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." — Peace Pilgrim, American activist, born 1908
"There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened." — Harold Pinter, English playwright, born 1930
"There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world." — Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, born 1910
"Take away the pain of knowing, fill the emptiness with light." — Robert Plant, English musician, born 1948
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." — Sylvia Plath, American poet, born 1932
"Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals." — Sylvia Plath, American poet, born 1932
"I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry." — Sylvia Plath, American poet, born 1932
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." — Sylvia Plath, American poet, born 1932
"The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated." — Plato, Philosopher in Classical Greece
"I am convinced that it was not the word that came first, but gesture. A gesture is understood by everyone--you need nothing else, no words." — Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina, born 1925