Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.