It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.