Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself