Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

What batters you becomes your strength.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.