I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

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

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

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

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.

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