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

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?