If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Let your imagination spread, until you are satisfied, like I am.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.

They’re so brave, " she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that, " she said scornfully.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.

There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.