Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.