This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Oh that was your girl? I thought I recognized her.

Pearls are always appropriate.

It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.