Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.