An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.