I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!