My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

Be selfless to be helpful.

The House shewes the owner.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream.

[Rex] Tillerson himself has no deputy, for example. Latest plans from the [Donald Trump's] administration call for a 37 percent cut to the agency's budget, 37 percent.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.