My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.