We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward