It's compassion that makes gods of us.
Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.
The best things arrive on time.
When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.