God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

Knock upon yourself as upon a door, and when the door opens an answer can be found.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

Responsibility comes with every relationship.

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."