I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.