The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.