We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.