No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.