The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.