You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.