If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

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.