We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.