If you purify the pond, the lilies die

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.