Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.