in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.