Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.