An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.