To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
