Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

The inability to see air does not prevent us from breathing. Being unable to see God should not prevent us from believing.

If you can't help it don't think about it.

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.