I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.