Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.