All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.