Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.