You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

I seek the substantial in life.