A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

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

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.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

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

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

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

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Don't wait for a perfect husband, love a man endlessly to make him perfect.

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.