I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.